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Iowa Caucus Results Called Into Question
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| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 05, 2012 08:25pm |
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| News Date | Friday, January 6, 2012 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mitt Romney’s razor-thin margin of victory in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses Tuesday have been called into dispute.
A southern Iowa supporter of Texas Rep. Ron Paul has filed a notarized statement claiming former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is the real winner. Edward L. True has informed the Republican Party of Iowa there was a 20-vote error in the caucus results from Appanoose County.
According to True, the number of votes Romney received from Washington Wells Precinct in Appanoose County were inflated by 20 when recorded by the state GOP.
True said he helped count the votes and kept a record of the outcome to post to Ron Paul Facebook pages. He noticed the error when he looked at the state GOP website
If his claim is accurate, then Santorum was the winner with 30,007 votes to Romney’s 29,995 rather than 30,015.
In the meantime, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Iowa said True is neither a precinct captain nor a county party leader and, according to KCCI-TV in Des Moines, “has no business talking about election results.”
She said Jan. 5 the party will have no further comment until the county-by-county results are certified, which could take a couple of weeks. |
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